e . * CIV. PROTEACE E. | Petrophila. 
end narrow-turbinate below the brush, rather shorter than the brush, 
which is not very densely hirsute with short spreading hairs. Nat 
broad and flat, the margins comose with long hairs, the outer face 
labrous, the inner villous.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 494 and in DC. 
rod. xiv. 267. 
WW. Australia. Swan river, Fraser, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 558, Preiss, n. 636; 
Vasse and Swan rivers, Oldfield. 
Var. anceps. Leaves straighter with thinner margins ; flowers rather smaller.— P. 
anceps, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 5; elssn. in . Prod. xiv. 267.—W. Australia, 
mond, Ath coll. n. 261, 5th coll. n. 394; King George's Sound, Baxter ; foot of Stirling 
Range, F. Mueller. 
- Sxor, 2. XEROSTOLE.— Leaves flat, ternately divided or rarely entire. 
Cones axillary, ovoid. Perianth-tube slender, usuall falling off entire 
or shortly splitting into four at the base. Style dickens and usually 
truncate at the end under the narrow nearly glabrous brush. 
The inflorescence and perianth are nearly those of the section Serrurioides, but the 
style is that of Arthrostigma, except that the brush is only very minutely papillose- 
ubescent or quite glabrous, although it appears to collect the pollen as in other 
8. 
6. P. heterophylla, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 99. A rigid shrub, 
p 
A except the cones. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, more or 
s fla 
t 
into 2 or 3 lobes, the whole leaf 2 to 4 in. long, rigid a 
narrowed to the base. Cones all axillary, sessile, ovoid-oblong, 4 
i es often ? in. . 
in. long without the perianths, the old long. Outer 
bracts numerous and e, the outermost small, the inner ones 
4-angled below the narrow glabrous brush. Nut tat, 
wing-like margins, often notched at the top, glabrous except à coma 0 
short hairs at the base—Meissn. in Pl. Eus. i. 501, ii. 246, and in - 
DC. Prod. xiv. 274. 
WV. Australia. Swan river to King George's Sound, Drummond, 1st. coll. n. 91, 
8rd coll. n. 244; Stirling Range, F. Mueller. 1 
7. P. biloba, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 7. A shrub, with the branches not 1 
very stout, the young shoots tomentose-pubescent and villous = 1 
readi Leaves % . 
= lobe, th ^ 
obliquely ovate rhomboid or oblong, pungent pointed under 9 12. * 0] 
but the lower leaves in some ne di and nearly all i wded 
22 linear lobes. Cones small, © 
sessile in the axils, often numerous and crowded along the brane 
